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Hello! During my MPH Graduate program I have been able to create a grant proposal that I will be sharing with you all today. The program will focus on providing trauma informed mental health care to adolescents in Gainesville, Florida. Below you will see a summary of my grant proposal! Overview Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic event that may occur during childhood and are linked to a myriad of chronic health problems. Some outcomes are depression, heart disease, obesity,...

Overview/Summary: This grant optimizes the collaboration and engagement in partnerships with Tennessee’s Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services and Tennessee’s Department of Education in the fight against household challenges with mental health and the trauma it can cause children growing up. For many years mental health has been a delicate topic to speak about and discuss freely in the United States. Many adults do not feel comfortable speaking about their personal...

Hello everyone, as part of my graduate coursework, I've written a grant proposal that proposes a trauma-informed public health intervention for providing culturally appropriate mental health services for the Southeast Asian American community in Long Beach, California. Below, I give an overview of my grant and discuss applicable trauma-informed principles, levels of the social-ecological model, and public health framework. Overview Southeast Asian American (SEAA) communities in the United...

The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions partnered with Peace4Tarpon under the Robert Wood Johnson Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) grant. Together they created two online graduate courses that focus on addressing ACEs and creating trauma-informed and resilience-based programs from a public health approach. Peace4Gainesville and Peace4TheBigBend have also contributed to these courses. This post is intended to showcase some of the work of the...

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with a number of negative physical, mental, and behavioral health outcomes throughout the lifespan, and are unfortunately very common. Children and families in Hialeah, Florida, a Cuban immigrant community in Miami-Dade County, are at a heightened risk of experiences ACEs due to widespread poverty and linguistic isolation. The proposed program is an attempt to address the needs of this community, reduce the prevalence of ACEs, and...

PHC6534- From Farm to Family: A trauma-informed program for healthy meals and healing among low-income women in the Bronx Overview Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) have been found to increase the risk for several chronic diseases, including hypertension (Gilbert, et al., 2010). These diseases increase the chance for adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes (Chang, Brown, & Nitzke, 2016). If not managed, gestational hypertension can lead to preeclampsia or eclampsia and an increased risk...

By the year 2050 approximately 46 million US adults aged 18 years or older will be diagnosed with a depressive disorder according to research by Heo et al 1 . The magnitude of this health condition urges mental health researchers to identify common etiologies of depression. Along with what can be done to circumvent an increase of this disorder within the population. The CDC reports that preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) could reduce up to 21 million cases of depression. This...

Obesity is a complex health problem that results from a combination of factors including genetics, physical inactivity, dietary patterns, and use of medications, among others (CDC, n.d.). It is a growing epidemic and has been recognized as a serious public health concern worldwide. In fact, according to the World Health Organization, worldwide obesity almost tripled between 1975 and 2016 (WHO, 2020). More specifically, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight in 2016 and, of these, 650...

Donna Jackson Nakazawa ( photo by Marshall Clarke ), award winning science journalist and author of Angel and the Assassin , will join Dr. Mimi Graham , director of Florida State University's Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy , Andrea Darr , creator of Handle With Care, Captain Lovetta Quinn-Henry , from the Orlando Police Department and many more featured at the conference. Help your community move the needle toward a trauma-informed, resilient community by learning from...

ACEs are a major public health concern and are associated with an increased risk of poor health outcomes. Nearly 25% of children are exposed to a traumatic event and 1 in 6 adults reported that they experienced four or more types of ACEs (Adverse Childhood, 2020; Razza et al., 2019). This grant proposal is to implement a mindfulness education curriculum in schools to address this problem. In research studies conducted on trauma-exposed adults and children, mindfulness interventions have...

Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) usage, otherwise known as vaping, is a growing epidemic in youth across the United States. Although overall rates of smoking among adolescents have decreased nationally, the introduction of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), such JUUL and Suorin, have led to a rise in adolescent ENDS use (Selekman, 2019). Tobacco industry marketing, numerous flavors, and high rates of peer pressure and stress are luring kids to these products (Kong et...

This grant proposal addresses the population of children with an incarcerated parent. The U.S. leads internationally in the imprisonment of its citizens and incarceration per 100,000 residents from 1970-2015 has increased by > 400% in 15 to 64 year-olds. 1 The staggering disparities between non-white and white incarceration rates of U.S. citizens are multifactorial. Children of the incarcerated have a higher number of Adverse Childhood Experiences than the general population and carry an...